Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-05 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > Late to this thread -- sorry. > > I am responsible for an STC that is dubbed immediately and that most > customers start early in the IPL. I have never heard any "you fail because > OMVS is not up" problems from customers.

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-05 Thread Charles Mills
Late to this thread -- sorry. I am responsible for an STC that is dubbed immediately and that most customers start early in the IPL. I have never heard any "you fail because OMVS is not up" problems from customers. Perhaps we have just been lucky and/or customers have solved it on their own

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-05 Thread Rob Scott
If ENFREQ listen for event code 46 is out of the question, you could call BPXEKDA for the global OMVS options and wait+retry if you get rc=28 Rob Scott -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday,

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Jackson, Rob wrote: > Won't it just wait on its own? We've never done anything special, and > we've never had any issues with things requiring OMVS. Every time we IPL > we get message BPXP022E . . . . > ​Hum, maybe I'm doing some

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread Jackson, Rob
Won't it just wait on its own? We've never done anything special, and we've never had any issues with things requiring OMVS. Every time we IPL we get message BPXP022E . . . . First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support 1638 Robert C Jackson Dr Maryville, TN 37801 O: 865-977-5343 C:

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread Chambers, David W.
MPF exit? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 2:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > Can you add a MPFLSTxx entry for BPXI004I? On the CBTTAPE there are a > couple of MPF Exit routines, one of them might be modified to issue a START > command (File 597?). > ​I will try that if my modification to

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread Nims,Alva John (Al)
Can you add a MPFLSTxx entry for BPXI004I? On the CBTTAPE there are a couple of MPF Exit routines, one of them might be modified to issue a START command (File 597?). Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: > /etc/rc ? > ​A good idea. I'll see what I can do with it. -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread Carmen Vitullo
/etc/rc ? Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "John McKown" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 1:34:41 PM Subject: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product. This is for another

STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread John McKown
This is for another system, not my employer's, which I sometime help to customize. I need to run a task at IPL time. The simplest way is to use the COMMNDxx member of PARMLIB to do a START command. But the program I'm running requires UNIX to be completely initialized. If I had automation, I'd do